Interim

As most of you probably know, I have decided to become a teacher with Teach for America. I will begin training in Philadelphia at the end of June, and will start teaching at the beginning of this fall, as a teacher in the Philly School District.

So with what is VonGrinner filling his days while he waits to begin training?

I am working at a vitamin factory where I do the most hilariously inane things every day. For example, my first day, they had me sit on a barrel and they poured all of these capsules (pills, you know) in front of me. My job was to look at the pile, and find any that were cracked or bent, and throw them away. When I felt like I had gotten them all, they would move the pile away, and pour more pills for me to stare at.

My second day, I went into this sealed-off room and poured a bright yellow-orange powder (to become Trigosamine) into barrels. It filled the air, turned my clothes and hair and fingernails and eyelashes school-bus yellow-orange. And eyebrows. I felt like a sneetch; you know how they go into the contraption and get stars upon thars, or get their stars off? And they're yellow? Well, I went into a contraption, and while I have no star upon me, I was turned yellow. Therefore I felt like a sneetch, and Sabinsa is McMonkey McBean, laughing all the way to the bank, having profited from my unnatural transformation.


Also, I am donating plasma, which has been fine, except yesterday they left the needle just hanging in me for like twenty minutes after my essence had already been withdrawn, so I was just sitting there, feeling my skin heal around the syringe, and seeing my blood dry in the tube. It did give me the opportunity to see Paul Blart, Mall Cop, almost to the end.

Also, I am supposably studying for the GRE, which I take this Friday.